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Happy 17th Birthday, Debian!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the august-is-interesting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Murdock's pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is now based."

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  1. In honor of by SnarfQuest · · Score: 0, Troll

    To honor it like we do 9/11, we should build a Windows Help Desk on the site.

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  2. Re:Thank you by helix2301 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree ubuntu is the best distro around thanks Murdock.

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  3. Re:Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that by frehe · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just love how the GNU/FSF/Debian crowd use "Freedom" in the same twisted Anti-Fascist Protection Wall/Golden Shield Newspeak way as political regimes do. When I read their views on how horribly unfree BSD/MIT/ISC/PD-licensed software is, and how the only True Free Software is that under the GPL, I can't help but being reminded of fine rhetoric such as this: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/notiz3.htm